To date $31,192 has been donated towards our goal of $48,000 to help children live free from violence and fear. If you haven't yet, please donate now to support this cause and help reach our goal. A song inspired by toddler Moko Tangitoheriri’s brutal death was launched last week in a bid to raise much-needed funds for Shine in the lead-up to the busy Christmas period. 'Another Little One' is the focus on our annual Christmas campaign, which asks that no more children be lost to violence or suffer abuse.’

Light it Orange 201806-Dec-2017 | Shine News

Light It Orange 2018 is 3-9 March. Join people all around New Zealand to go crazy with the colour orange, raise awareness and raise much needed funds to help victims of domestic abuse to get safe and stay safe.

Simon and Amy are passionate about exploring this beautiful country and capturing those moments through photography. Both were formally diagnosed with depression last year after individually struggling for years in silence. Through this time, Shine and Lifeline provided good support for them. They are donating 50% of the proceeds from their calendar to Shine & Lifeline.

Shine’s Holly Carrington says, “With Fonterra’s size and reach, our DVFREE programme for business has the potential to directly help thousands of Kiwis – and their children – to have safer and better lives. Fonterra’s managing director people and culture Joanne Fair says businesses have a huge role to play in tackling what is one of New Zealand’s biggest social issues...“This initiative is about making family violence OK to talk about within our organisation and ensuring our people know help is readily available if needed... Careful handling of the first contact from a victim when they seek help is critical so we’re grateful for the support of Shine who have advised us on policy and provided workplace support training to some of our employees across the country."

New research from Amnesty International shows one in three Kiwi women experience harassment online. Jill Proudfoot from Shine says 'social media websites need to take more responsibility to quash online abuse.’

The Misery of Marie08-Nov-2017 | Shine News

“The death of Marie was absolutely preventable,” says Jane Drumm, of domestic abuse charity Shine...
'Why didn’t someone join the dots between a history of abuse and violence, police callouts, Child Youth and Family alerts? Why did Corrections fail to detect Marie was living with Hohua while on home detention? And why did Judge Bidois let Hohua out on bail, twice?.. '
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American basketball star shares her story of hope30-Oct-2017 | Shine News

American basketball star and domestic violence survivor Ruthie Bolton today shared her life story - and showed some rising Kiwi players some new tricks - at an event in Auckland Saturday put on by Shine at Tamaki College.

David McLean: NZ workplaces can do more to address family violence & NZHerald Focus video interview with Shine’s Holly Carrington about the DVFREE Tick03-Oct-2017 | Shine News

‘Although it is an issue that doesn't only affect women, for a business like ours, which employs more than 2700 women, family violence is a real and serious issue for a number of our staff…We collaborated with domestic violence support charity Shine to ensure our approach followed best practice and have now been formally recognised as New Zealand's first Domestic Violence Free (DVFREE) employer with the DVFREE Tick.’

'..Rebecca and those like her get punished for their partners' behaviour — unfairly. Shine aims to help bosses and colleagues notice and help domestic abuse victims, through a new programme called the DVFree Tick…On Tuesday, Westpac became the first DVFree certified business.’